ALAIN SAINT-SAËNS

                     A renowned historian,

                     An acclaimed poet, playwright, and novelist,

                     A translator into several languages,

                     A very fine specialist of Latin American Literature.
 

Dr. Alain Saint-Saëns is Full Professor of Early Modern History; Agrégé d'Histoire from the University of Paris-Sorbonne (France); Docteur (1990) and Docteur Habilité (1996) from the University of Toulouse (France); and a former Scientific Fellow of the French Institute for Advanced Spanish Studies in Madrid, the Casa de Velázquez (Spain), where he spent three years.  Winner of both the OSU Faculty Associate Award for excellence in interracting with student life on campus; and the OSU Scholarly Excellence Award for excellence in scholarship in 1995, Dr. Alain Saint-Saëns was a Scholar-in-Residence at Trent University (Canada), and has taught at Tulane University (USA); the Universidad of Toledo and the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain); the University of Rennes (France).

He is currently teaching History and Comparative Literature at the Universidad del Norte in Asunción, Paraguay.  He is a member of the Editorial Board of Hispania Sacra.  He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies from 1991 to 1993; and organized the International Meeting of the SSPHS in Puerto Rico in 1992. He served as  Co-Director of the Mediterranean Conferences from 1994 to 1998, with Dr. Norman Hollub. He organized highly successful congresses in Rome (Italy); Murcia (Spain); Syracusa (Italy); Paris/Bordeaux (France); and Istambul (Turkey). He is the Editor of Discurso Literario and the organizer of a yearly International Symposium in the Humanities in Paraguay. 

 

Dr. Alain Saint-Saens

 

Dr. Alain Saint-Saëns served as

Chair of the History Department at the Dowling College of New York

from 1997 to 2000,

before becoming Director of University Press of the South

and Presses Universitaires du Nouveau Monde from 2000 till 2009.

He is currently Director of International Relations

at the Universidad del Norte, in Asunción, Paraguay.

 

HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS

Art and Faith in Tridentine Spain (1545-1690)

Young Charles V, 1500-1531

                          Dr. Alain Saint-Saëns is a nationally

                       and internationally renowned historian.

                             He authored three major books:

  • - La nostalgie du désert.  L'idéal érémitique en Castille au Siècle d'Or (1993).

  • - Art and Faith in Tridentine Spain, 1545-1690 (1995).

  • - Valets de Dieu, suppôts du Diable.  Ermites et Réforme catholique dans l'Espagne des Habsbourg (1550-1700) (1999).

                         Alain Saint-Saëns edited or co-edited

                                several volumes of articles:

  • - Religion, Body, and Gender in Early Modern Spain (1991).

  • - The Early Modern Spanish Woman:  Images and Realities (1995) [co-edited by Magdalena Sánchez].

  • - Historia silenciada de la mujer española (1996).

  • - Sex and Love in Golden Age Spain (1997).

  • - Lesbianism and Homosexuality in Early Modern Spain.   Literature and Theater in Context (2000) [co-edited by María-José Delgado].

  • - Young Charles V, 1500-1531 (2000).

 

Sex and Love in Golden Age Spain

Lesbianism and Homosexuality in Early Modern Spain

"Il s'agit d'une démonstration globalement très neuve, de l'invention d'un champ d'études qui dépasse largement le cadre de l'Espagne.  Alain Saint-Saëns montre de manière remarquable, dans Valets de Dieu, suppôts du Diable, comment l'érémitisme se dégrade sous la pression des évêques et d'une Eglise tridentine qui se méfie d'eux.  Un grand pan de l'histoire religieuse et culturelle de l'Espagne est ainsi évoqué avec talent".

Robert Muchembled
(Université de Paris-XIII)

"Valets de Dieu, suppôts du Diable constitue une contribution d'importance à l'étude de la pénétration, en profondeur, de la Réforme catholique à partir de 1550.  La démonstration est d'autant plus efficace qu'
Alain Saint-Saëns sait utiliser avec habileté et science des sources aussi diverses que l'iconographie, les oeuvres littéraires et spirituelles, les archives diocésaines et les séries du tribunal de l'Inquisition.  C'est là l'oeuvre d'un historien accompli".

Louis Châtellier (Université de Nancy)

 

                                                                                                                                            LITERARY PUBLICATIONS

       
   
       

Cantos Paraguayos.  Poemas de libertad.
       

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